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New Vacation-Home Hot Spot
Ends Up Far North in Canada

LUNENBURG, Nova Scotia -- After hunting high and low in the U.S. for affordable vacation property, Robert Fordi finally found it in Canada.

A year and a half ago, the Baltimore real-estate consultant and investor paid about $130,000 for a renovated, year-round, three-bedroom house on four acres of lawn and forest with 600 feet of water frontage on a picturesque harbor along Nova Scotia's south shore.